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The Hummingbird Project is looking for an Activities Specialist to join our team in the San Jose, CA area.

The Hummingbird Project is a referral-based program, your hours will start at 30 with increase of hours over time, and your ability to be flexible and adapt to fluctuation in hours is important.

Ideal candidates for this position include activity directors, recreation therapists, teaching artists, or creative arts therapists who want to make a meaningful impact on the lives of elders through one-on-one connection. Must have a master’s degree or relevant experience in art, drama, music, expressive arts, or recreation therapy and at least 2 years working with older adults.

BENEFITS
Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package for full- and part-time positions. (Part-time positions are eligible for benefits with a consistent 20-hour per week schedule.)
Comprehensive Medical, Dental & Vision plans
HSA and FSA plans
401K
Paid time off
Annual bonus incentive
Employee referral program

REQUIREMENTS
Bachelor’s Degree required
Master’s degree or relevant experience in art, drama, music, expressive arts or recreation therapy preferred
Minimum 2 years of experience working with older adults
Experience with cognitive changes and dementia
Compassionate and empathic towards vulnerable populations
Creativity and competence developing and implementing individualized activity plans
Knowledge of holistic quality of life, life enrichment and engagement terminology
Excellent people skills: able to connect with a wide range of individuals, engage them, and put them at ease
Exemplary writing skills: professional tone and quality
Outstanding time management skills
Experience working with the G Suite platform (Google drive, gmail, etc.)
Experience working with video platforms, including Zoom, Facetime, and Google Hangouts
Valid California driver’s license, vehicle insurance, and reliable private transportation

RESPONSIBILITIES
Create and implement a variety of therapeutic activities aimed at improving client quality of life.
Plan and implement individualized activity sessions for a diverse range of clients, conducting sessions one-on-one with clients in their places of residence and group programs in facilities.
Lead art-based group activities in assisted living facilities.
Conduct regular visits with clients and care providers to provide materials and support for quality of Life (QOL) activities.
Please watch our Hummingbird Project Video to learn more about us!

At Sage Eldercare Solutions we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment and building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. Sage is an equal opportunity employer.

Sage Eldercare Solutions requires applicants to be fully up-to-date with their vaccinations against COVID-19, including the booster dose, if eligible. We do not make work-related decisions based on any legally protected characteristic or in an unlawful manner. We will engage in a prompt, good faith, interactive process with applicants who require reasonable accommodations. We encourage applicants to initiate this interactive process promptly with Sage whenever such accommodations may be required.

Compensation: This is an hourly position and the range is $36 to $40 hourly dependent on skills, experience, and education.

Learn more and apply here.

Join national leaders in the field at The Creative Center at University Settlement in our long-standing tradition of training artists and administrators to replicate our model in a variety of healthcare settings.

Our training, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, will focus on the expanding roles of the arts in healthcare and creative aging, to implement and sustain high-quality arts programming in a variety of settings, serving people living with illness and older adults across the aging spectrum. Serving artists and administrators in a variety fields will be given everything needed to create “best practice” arts programming in community and senior centers, hospital, healthcare, nursing homes and long-term care facilities, along with rehabilitation, palliative and hospice settings. We recognize that arts and health spaces are rife with racial and economic inequity and welcome the opportunity to interrogate these topics during every presentation.

Presentations, workshops and discussion groups, will include, among others:

• Getting Old: The Aging Body, Mind and Soul
• Narrative and Storytelling in Arts and Health
• Healthcare Artists-In-Residence Panel: What Do You Need to Make it Work
• Older Professional Artists: A Model for Society
• Lifetime Arts: The State of the Field
• Opening Minds Through Art: an intergenerational program
• Museum Panel:  Understanding Engagement and Access for Older Adult Populations
• Debut Virtual Performance of The Double Image Lab’s latest work Inseperable

For online application, visit our homepage, www.thecreativecenter.org or email [email protected]. Applications must be received by September 12. Fees: $350 per selected trainee.  Applicants working in NYC may apply for the discounted rate of $250. Several scholarships available. People of color encouraged to apply.

Please click here to access the application for the training or visit the homepage of our website.

For information, please email [email protected].

Support for The Creative Center Training Institute for Artists and Administrators in Healthcare and Creative Aging comes from the National Endowment for the Arts and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs.

JOB SUMMARY:
The Project Specialist- Visual Arts reports to the Director of the Center for Performing Arts Medicine (CPAM) and works under the guidance of CPAM’s Project Manager. The Project Specialist- Visual Arts will be a facilitator of employee, community and professional visual arts throughout the system of Houston Methodist hospitals. With the goal of supporting a holistic environment of care for patients, visitors and employees, a primary role of the Project Specialist- Visual Arts will be to manage and leverage the Healing Arts Exhibition Series, an all employee, physician, and volunteer photography contest and collection, to enhance the healing environment of care at Houston Methodist. The Project Specialist- Visual Arts will facilitate Healing Arts Exhibition requests and tours throughout the system, oversee the logistical process from photo submission to de-installation, maintain records of the collection, monitor the ongoing maintenance needs, track donated visual arts gifts, assist in special projects as needed, and act as the coordinator for employee, community and professional visual arts programs and collaborations throughout the Houston Methodist system. This position requires excellent communication skills, an attention to detail, arts administration experience, and a strong visual arts background. Coordination and collaboration will also be required with CPAM’s Divisions of Arts Integration, Music Therapy, Research and Assessment, Outreach and Education, and Artist Health.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO APPLY

By Nicole Crimi

Being in the medical field, we have the immense privilege of understanding our own health. When thinking about the experiences of children during the pandemic, it is very apparent that they don’t share this privilege, and their lack of knowledge and understanding of the pandemic only exacerbates their stresses. I wrote, illustrated and self-published this children’s book “Patty and the Pandemic” to target the knowledge gap for children aged 3-8 years old, and help to teach them about coronavirus in a fun, engaging and empowering way! My hope is that this book makes the situation less daunting for children, but also helps with knowledge translation without overwhelming kids. The content in the book has been peer reviewed, and 100% of the profits raised from this book are going to Face the Future Foundation to help provide healthcare to children in developing countries. The response has been incredibly positive thus far, and creating this initiative has helped with my own wellness throughout COVID-19, as it has made me feel much more inspired, empowered and connected to my community.

The U.S. Department of Arts and Culture (USDAC) seeks a collaborative, visionary, experienced, movement-oriented leader to steward and evolve the people-powered department at a moment of significant transformation and opportunity.

The person in this role will join a collaborative effort to evolve strategy and vision, grow capacity, and transition the USDAC into its next chapter. They will contribute to “holding the whole” — developing and coordinating programs and partnerships, deepening organizing strategy, and creating the conditions through which a growing team can support and activate the USDAC’s network of 22,000+  artists, cultural organizers, educators, policy-makers, arts administrators, activists, and allies.

We are looking for someone with significant leadership experience in both organizational development and social justice organizing. Background in arts or cultural work is not a requirement for this role.  A successful candidate must have an appreciation for and understanding of the power of cultural work and creativity. Experience in community cultural development, the intersection of arts and social justice, and/or cultural organizing is, of course, also a plus!

Our team is currently comprised of five contractors, all compensated at an equal rate. We are looking for someone with vision and energy, ready for a significant new leadership opportunity and eager to bring their experience and expertise to the next chapter of our shared work.

Learn more and apply here.

Adventist HealthCare System announces a Call for Artists for exterior artwork for White Oak Medical Center (MD). The selected sculpture will serve as a memorial to Lucille Byard, an African-American woman who was denied health care services in 1943 and whose legacy shapes the health system’s mission and values today. Entry deadline is 1/31/20.

For more information: https://artist.callforentry.org/festivals_unique_info.php?ID=7319

I’ve been using art to connect corporate groups around the world for over 25 years. I call these collaborative paintings FingerSmears.

I wanted to use a FingerSmear empower and connect people from all corners to make a broader statement about our need to get along. I chose to focus on adolescent girls, because they are the largest underserved population in the world, and they possess great ability to create multi- generational change – particularly in a 3-rd world environment. I also had some compassion for adolescent girls who wanted, perhaps, to walk a different path.

We collaborate with existing organizations. In each location the girls all participate in one global FingerSmear that travels with us from place to place, but they also create a piece of art about themselves. It’s a super-self-portrait and it’s based on a conversation about community, their place it in, and their opinions about it. What they cherish, and what they want to see change – and how they can become part of that change. What small steps can they take today to start to steer things in that direction. They are insightful, and inspiring, and have plenty to say. It’s an ongoing project and we’ve been able to produce it in 19 locations around the world. I call it Mighty Fingers Facing Change.

My eyes have been opened to places where girls are too often told that their most valuable commodity is their body, where they are expected to have sex for any minor advancement – or a mere piece of soap. Places where access to medical care means standing in line for days to see a doctor who only comes once a month. Places where husbands mutilate their wives for baseless fantasies of infidelity, and the authorities turn their head. Places where human trafficking is a constant and very real threat. Many of these hardships are amplified by widespread alcoholism because homemade booze is a cheap opiate, but makes a poor community infinitely more hopeless, and for young girls – more dangerous.

Faced with these kinds of obstacles, I would sometimes wonder – can art really change any of this?

But I did it anyway because I believed that it could, and I keep doing it, because I’ve seen that having the opportunity to create, and speak, and share, and make bold statements about your own power – and to do it all around a piece of tangible art, that will remind you again and again of that power – and that possibility – holds value.

I’ve seen shy girls find their voice and lead their peers to action. I’ve seen girls dream about bringing some kind of medical care to their community, and graduate nursing school at the top of their class. I’ve seen communities ravaged by natural disaster, take broken bits of rubble and turn it into the most amazing mosaics that now define the flavor of their village and draw tourism dollars from around the world.

Practicing the arts – the introspection, the exploration, the expression – the state you enter when you create it is ancient, and hardwired, and to be in it, is transformative. It helps us communicate from this place that starts on the inside and is given out, rather than operating from a place where we only have external, market driven content, continually pushed IN.

This place on the inside, is where we ignite, and develop and nurture all the beautiful things that keep us connected, and happy, and healthy.

For more information, please visit my website: kellysullivan.live

NOAH is working to develop a research database for the field of Arts in Health that will allow keyword and category searches, and offer guidance and information on the types of research found. Research will be categorized in areas such as:

• Qualitative
• Quantitative
• Peer-Reviewed
• Use of a Control Group
• Multi-Site
• Interdisciplinary
• Blinded study

NOAH’s goal is to find areas of need and to support rigorous research-based construction of studies and resources for professionals and programs in the field.

We appreciate your patience while this database is being built, and invite you to explore the below resources for your research efforts.

Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities (a2ru) Resources:

http://research.a2ru.org/node/80

https://umich.app.box.com/s/yp7lncaa7lv5950fi7phvrzmy2tsen6v

American Art Therapy Association: http://arttherapy.org/aata-resources/

American Music Therapy Association: http://www.musictherapy.org/research/pubs/

International Expressive Arts Therapy Association: http://www.ieata.org/creative-arts-resources.html

The National Endowment for the Arts Guide to Community-Engaged Research in the Arts and Health: https://www.arts.gov/publications/national-endowment-arts-guide-community-engaged-research-arts-and-health

PubMed: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed

Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/

University of Florida Center for Arts in Medicine Research Database: http://arts.ufl.edu/academics/center-for-arts-in-medicine/research-database/

White Paper: Talking About Arts in Health http://arts.ufl.edu/academics/center-for-arts-in-medicine/resources/talking-about-arts-in-health/

NOAH Events and Communications Assistant – PART TIME – REMOTE

Deadline to apply extended to February 5, 2021

About NOAH:

With a mission to “unite, serve, and advance the field of arts in health”, NOAH is a national membership organization serving the individuals and institutions working to bring the arts to healthcare and wellness settings in the US. We believe that the arts can be an effective tool to increase equitable access to whole-person healthcare, and work towards building diversity, inclusion, and excellence in the national arena of health and well-being.

Position Summary:

NOAH is looking for an energetic and organized individual with strong communications and design skills to join our team. In this role, you will help execute the fall Annual National Conference (virtual and/or in-person) and help implement NOAH’s communications plan to increase the organization’s online presence, membership, and conference registrations. Supporting the Marketing, Membership and Conference Committees you will work remotely regularly participating in meetings via Zoom. In addition, you may assist with other NOAH events including but not limited to the Leadership Summit, In-person Board Meetings, and other strategy meetings/events. Strong organizational skills, high attention to detail, problem solving skills and ability to execute tasks in a timely manner are needed for this position, as well as the ability to work independently and on multiple priorities at the same time.

Points of Contact:

The NOAH Communications Administrative Assistant will report to and receive direction from the Marketing, Membership and Conference Committee Chairs and the Operations Manager.

Main Responsibilities:

• Execute tasks related to the annual conference and other NOAH events as needed
• Maintain and monitor social media platforms, helping to build a positive NOAH brand experience and developing meaningful relationships with online audiences
• Develop engaging digital content
• Assist Operations Manager with creating and sending newsletters and member communications
• Assist Operations Manager with maintaining the NOAH website using WordPress and MembershipWorks software

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or Associate’s degree in communications, design or related area, or 1-2 years working in organizational communications
• Ability to show work samples of professional social media content and media communications
• Experience using Adobe Creative Suite
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Ability to maintain a high level of professionalism and discretion when dealing with the various parties involved (board, staff, attendees, presenters, sponsors, vendors)
• Ability to travel to event location and be onsite prior to and through event load out for event execution

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience executing in-person/virtual conferences and events or related experience
• Understanding, experience or interest in Arts in Health

Compensation:

This position is a salaried position requiring 20 hours per week with regular availability during business hours (NOAH is time zone flexible). Additional hours may be required as the conference/event approaches as well as during the conference/event itself. The hourly rate for this position is $20.00 which includes the additional hours that may be required for the event. Flights and public transportation costs, housing and meals during work hours are covered by NOAH for in-person events.

To Apply:

Deadline for Applications is extended to Friday, February 5, 2021. NOAH is looking to fill this position soon, with a start date in March 2021. Please provide the following, emailed to [email protected] with the subject line “Events and Communications Assistant” (preferably as one packaged PDF attachment):

• A cover letter expressing interest in and qualifications for the position
• A resume with two reference contacts
• Work samples of print media, social media, media communications
• Writing samples (newsletters, social media posts, articles, blog posts)

As part of NOAH’s commitment to advancing diversity and inclusion in the field of Arts in Health, we aim to amplify traditionally underrepresented voices. Applicants are encouraged to share if they identify with one or more historically marginalized groups (examples include but are not limited to Immigrant, Indigenous, International, LGBTQIA, Person of Color, Person with a Disability, Person of Size, Socioeconomic Disadvantage). This is not a requirement for submitting an application, but NOAH encourages applicants who come from one or more of these historically marginalized populations. If you feel comfortable, please share in your cover letter how you represent diversity in one or more of these areas. NOAH is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

New Jersey Performing Arts Center 

Project Consultant, Arts and Wellness 

Scope of Work 

May 2021 

About NJPAC: 

New Jersey Performing Arts Center (NJPAC), located in downtown Newark, N.J., is America’s most diverse performing arts center, and the artistic, cultural, educational and civic center of New Jersey – where great performances and events enhance and transform lives every day. NJPAC brings diverse communities together, providing access to all and showcasing the state’s and the world’s best artists while acting as a leading catalyst in the revitalization of its home city. Through its extensive Arts Education programs, NJPAC is shaping the next generation of artists, artist citizens and arts enthusiasts. NJPAC has attracted 10 million visitors (including more than 1.8 million children) since opening its doors in 1997, and nurtures meaningful and lasting relationships with each of its constituents. njpac.org. 

About the initiative: 

It is well established that the arts have an essential role to play in fostering individual and community health. As the state’s largest provider of performing arts programs and arts education and Newark’s anchor cultural institution, NJPAC is developing an initiative that ties the arts to healthy living, wellness, and preventative care. 

NJPAC’s real estate master plan for our downtown Newark campus and planned approximately 60,000 square foot Cooperman Family Arts Education and Community Center (to open in 2024) offer new opportunities to strategically and comprehensively bring the arts and health/wellness together, extend our mission as an anchor cultural institution, and amplify the work of our community health partners. The arts can be a tool for healthy living and self-expression that we can leverage, with the expertise of statewide health partners, to foster a culture of health and wellbeing in our community. 

NJPAC seeks a Project Consultant to work with us to develop a vision for this initiative over a two to three-month period commencing in May 2021. 

Click here for more information and to apply.